Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:46:26 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "James Williams" <james.williams1952@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Console size and scrollback buffer. Message-ID: <20081110144626.e25d1f4e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <6cadf1f00811100528v479e2e91s8d62552aa8a469e1@mail.gmail.com> References: <6cadf1f00811100507r3347e30ft2c7a3ed22f9c049b@mail.gmail.com> <6cadf1f00811100528v479e2e91s8d62552aa8a469e1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:58:31 +0530, "James Williams" <james.williams1952@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) How can I change the number of rowsxcols of the console? I'd like
> to use the maximum rows/cols available for the 1440x900 screen.
You can use vidcontrol to do that.
> 2) How can these settings be made default (takes effect at boot)?
At boot? Never tried this, but I think there are some kernel
settings that are relevant for this; they'll be documented in
the NOTES files for the kernel.
> 3) How I can set the scrollback buffer size (if that's the name) of
> the console -- the equivalent of Shift+{PgUp,PgDn} on Linux?
In FreeBSD, use the Scroll Lock key (that's why it's there); the
length of the scrollback buffer can be controlled by vidcontrol, too.
Refer to "man vidcontrol" and its EXAMPLES section.
> I played around with vidcontrol but was not quite successful.
Make sure the requested videomode is available, "vidcontrol -i mode"
will tell you.
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Polytropon
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